What DAW do you use?
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- KVRAF
- 2139 posts since 15 Jul, 2003 from ex-NJ, PA
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- KVRAF
- 3299 posts since 7 May, 2004 from Athens, Greece
Another Tracktioneer here
If I go insane, please don't put your wires in my brain
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- KVRAF
- 12977 posts since 29 Sep, 2003 from Ottawa, Canada
Tracktion, yo. Yo, Tracktion. Tracktion, yo.
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- KVRAF
- 12235 posts since 18 Aug, 2003
I use Audiomulch almost exclusively these days. Is it a DAW? What is a DAW exactly? Don't some folk call their computers that?
When you boot Mulch, it says it's an Interactive Music Studio. Same thing as a Digital Audio Workstation? To my mind, it is simply a composer's instrument (arranger, sampler, synthesizer, processor).
Instead of listing off brand names, it might be interesting to know what people actually do with these apps. Do you use Cubase like a synthesizer? Do you do audio mix down in FL Studio? To me, apps like Cubase and Cakewalk are super robust composition/arrangement tools, but they never felt like an instrument to me. When I open something like Audiomulch or Live or energyXT or Tracktion up, they feel like as much an instrument as the Timewarp Arp 2600, that the process of setting up automation in Mulch or rigging up a rack filter in Tracktion requires the same mental approach as adjusting a filter's cutoff frequency or adjusting an ADSR.
When you boot Mulch, it says it's an Interactive Music Studio. Same thing as a Digital Audio Workstation? To my mind, it is simply a composer's instrument (arranger, sampler, synthesizer, processor).
Instead of listing off brand names, it might be interesting to know what people actually do with these apps. Do you use Cubase like a synthesizer? Do you do audio mix down in FL Studio? To me, apps like Cubase and Cakewalk are super robust composition/arrangement tools, but they never felt like an instrument to me. When I open something like Audiomulch or Live or energyXT or Tracktion up, they feel like as much an instrument as the Timewarp Arp 2600, that the process of setting up automation in Mulch or rigging up a rack filter in Tracktion requires the same mental approach as adjusting a filter's cutoff frequency or adjusting an ADSR.
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TotcProductions TotcProductions https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=6202 - KVRAF
- 5157 posts since 5 Mar, 2003 from Franklin, NH
Said it before and i'll say it again....Nuendo (ex-cubaser, upgraded).
peace!
peace!
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- KVRAF
- 5157 posts since 5 Mar, 2003 from Franklin, NH
Fair enough. I use nuendo for EVERYTHING! Composing, mixing, mastering, blah blah blah blah. Sure it can be used as "instruments"....with a little help from XT and a few VST's. So that's my setup, : Nuendo and EnergyXT. I find the combination to be unbeatable.shamann wrote: Instead of listing off brand names, it might be interesting to know what people actually do with these apps. Do you use Cubase like a synthesizer? Do you do audio mix down in FL Studio? To me, apps like Cubase and Cakewalk are super robust composition/arrangement tools, but they never felt like an instrument to me. When I open something like Audiomulch or Live or energyXT or Tracktion up, they feel like as much an instrument as the Timewarp Arp 2600, that the process of setting up automation in Mulch or rigging up a rack filter in Tracktion requires the same mental approach as adjusting a filter's cutoff frequency or adjusting an ADSR.
peace!
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- KVRian
- 1022 posts since 7 Sep, 2004
i r UsiNG Trackshun an Fluity Roops 5! 
I like working on electronic/jarre-esque pieces in FLStudio. One thing I really like is the slide-to-note functionality in FLS which allows you to control note slides (pitch, volume) with more control than you could ever achieve manually with pitch bend or portamento. Great for those Vangelis-style film soundtracks (BladeRunner etc.). There's a space-trading game called "X3: The Reunion" coming out soon some which has nice music in this style (the musician for the game apparently uses FLS in a similar way). You can even do this on 4 different note groups at the same time. I really miss this in other apps, but, alas, this won't work with VSTs. I've heard similar things done in Orion using the T-Slide functionality.
As for more freeform orchestral work, I really like Tracktion. It understands changes in Time Sig and Tempo nicely. I miss score functionality in Tracktion, but what it does it does very well imho. Like alot of others, I find that the paradigm just 'works' really nicely. The MIDI editing can be a hassle, and the line tool is next to useless in the CC section, but I'm reasonably confident these things are being working on.
I like working on electronic/jarre-esque pieces in FLStudio. One thing I really like is the slide-to-note functionality in FLS which allows you to control note slides (pitch, volume) with more control than you could ever achieve manually with pitch bend or portamento. Great for those Vangelis-style film soundtracks (BladeRunner etc.). There's a space-trading game called "X3: The Reunion" coming out soon some which has nice music in this style (the musician for the game apparently uses FLS in a similar way). You can even do this on 4 different note groups at the same time. I really miss this in other apps, but, alas, this won't work with VSTs. I've heard similar things done in Orion using the T-Slide functionality.
As for more freeform orchestral work, I really like Tracktion. It understands changes in Time Sig and Tempo nicely. I miss score functionality in Tracktion, but what it does it does very well imho. Like alot of others, I find that the paradigm just 'works' really nicely. The MIDI editing can be a hassle, and the line tool is next to useless in the CC section, but I'm reasonably confident these things are being working on.
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- KVRAF
- 7489 posts since 6 Jul, 2004
crimsontider wrote:Poll, How Old are you
8-12
12-16
60-65
65+
My vote:
Other =
Ableton Live 5
... and Adobe Audition.
(Plus Reason, bigtime, but I consider that to be an instrument, not a DAW.)
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- KVRAF
- 2744 posts since 5 Dec, 2003 from Harlan's World
Live 5 here. And FLS 5 on occasion.
My Soundcloud Too many pieces of music finish far too long after the end. - Stravinsky
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- KVRist
- 224 posts since 23 Jun, 2005
Sonar 4, although I'm counting the days until 5 arrives in the mail and can't wait to devise devious uses for those tempo-synced envelope patterns.
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- KVRer
- 16 posts since 28 Jan, 2004 from Avellino, Italy
other = renoise for me